Finland's Wife Carrying Contest

Meanwhile I shall remain a friend trying to become a better person in a country trying to become a better democracy… 

I’ve been reading of late that plants can talk to each other and can even talk to certain bugs in a tongue that you and I cannot hear. ..

...and a tear ran down her cheek.

The first person to swim across Lake Tahoe was a woman, naturally, Myrtle Huddleston. ..

Just looking at some of the records in the Guinness Book has caused me to wonder how I might become officially amazing by getting my name in that book somewheres, and I think I’vehit on it...

The true measure of a person is not net worth, but net humanity.

So you might be wondering, what is the prize for winning the World’s Wife Carrying Championships? I thought you’d never ask. The grand prize is the winners’ total weight in beer.

You just might get swept away into another person’s life, another person’s time, that will thrill and entertain you to no end…

That evening we went body surfing at midnight under a full moon, and a couple porpoises joined us as playmates and instructors...

That was this boy’s lucky day...